From top: Captain Rich (Sean Bean) listens to Peter Sarsgaard.By Tania Martin
A SPINE tingling thriller Flight Plan starring Jodie Foster and Sean Bean will keep audiences on the edge of their seats.
Directed by Robert Schwentke, Fight Plan keeps people guessing from the first scene when Kyle Pratt (Foster) identifies her dead husband’s body at a mortuary in Berlin.
Foster then returns home only to see a couple of men, standing across the road, staring at her six-year-old daughter, Julia’s room, which sets the theme as a thriller.
Flying at 40,000 feet in a state-of-the-at E-474 aircraft, which Foster designed, a mother’s worst nightmare is realised when Julia goes missing mid-flight from Berlin to New York.
Already emotionally crippled by the devastating and unexpected loss of her husband, Foster struggles to prove her sanity to the pilot, crew and air stewards.
After a frantic search through the plane, Foster, seeks out the pilot Captain Rich (Sean Bean) and pleads for him to search the plane for her little girl.
But, Bean and the Air Marshal Gene Carson (Peter Sarsgaard) doubts that Foster has a daughter as the flight crew didn’t realise Foster had a little girl with her on the flight.
The mystery deepens as Julia was not included on the flight manifest and the ground crew at Berlin Airport can’t remember checking Julia onto the plane.
However, Foster convinces Bean to allow the plane to be searched for her daughter.
After a thorough search of the plane Julia is still not anywhere to be seen, and a startling piece of information come to light, Foster’s husband had not fallen off their building, but jumped taking his daughter Julia with him.
The passengers, crew and captain then see Foster as a woman in denial over the death of her young daughter.
At this stage the audience will be sitting on the edge of their seats wondering what is going to happen next, as it is only half way through the film and it was too soon to be over.
Foster doesn’t believe her daughter is dead and continues to try and find her daughter, meanwhile she is getting suspicious of Sarsgaard and one of the flight stewards.
Finding herself desperately alone, Kyle can only rely on her wits to solve the mystery and save her daughter.
This thriller will have you on the edge of your seat and wanting more every step of the way, it is a film not to be missed.
**** stars.
